Young Ferment
Young Ferment is a collaboration between Young SixSix, Young Company and Bristol Old Vic’s literary department.
It’s a programme that allows Young Company and Young SixSix’s emerging writers, composers, directors and devisors to develop their creative ideas with support from a professional team.
Mentored by Imogen Downes, Paige Stevens and selected Ferment artists, the Young Ferment team will develop four 20-minute pieces, performed by Young Company and Young SixSix performers aged Year 9 and above.
For Young Ferment 2024, our pieces will be:
The Big Fish Hide in the Depths | Creative team: Sebastian Stevens, Eleanor Jones and Kotryna Leita | Devised by The Company | Ferment Mentor – Stephanie Kempson
"Everyone else is too shallow. It restrains their growth. They swim around in shoals, mindless. We are bigger than them. Like the big fish that hide in the depths, we will drag them down to see the world as it really is..."
To Aline, the physical world feels void of depth and connection. But in an anonymous online group, she finds community, and purpose. But what kind of situation is she getting herself into and how far is she willing to go to earn the title of “friend”?
Seb Stevens • Eleanor Jones • Kat Leita • Tom John Smith • Monty Mole • Isobel Craig • Oakley McNab • Clara Hayes • Martha Ward • Evie Coope • Zoe Martin • Honor Gore
1200 Seconds | Creative team: Freddie Brown & Gabe Norris | Devised by The Company | Ferment Mentor – Marietta Kirkbride
A countdown. A clock in the sky. 20 minutes. Nobody is certain what's going on, and a group of young people must figure out how they want to spend what may well be the last 20 minutes of their lives.
Freddie Brown • Gabe Norris • Lola Fyson • Betsy Wright • Daisy Dimbleby • Henry Paasch • Joshua Baines-Dark • Eleanor Parker • Bella Salisbury • Lily Geater • Bea Blackman • Herbert Taylor
Repass | Creative team: Ryan Zhou & Khadijah Sawyers | Devised by The Company | Ferment Mentor –Jyuddah Jaymes
A group of friends gather under worrying circumstances as one of their own has gone missing. As the friends try to pick up the pieces, the past and present collide as they realise the problem was in their face the entire time.
Ryan Zhou • Khadijah Sawyers • Teja Dalphy • Liz Meech • Esme Lewis • David Ewulomi • Moni Mclaren • Rhiannon Speck • Jasper Verinder • Ricardo Neto • Ramiro Magloire
The Good of Grief | Creative team: Harmani Clarke, Sennen Uma, Tchii-Anna Hall-Edwards & Aila Sudbury| Devised by The Company | Ferment Mentor – Florence Espeut-Nickless
Under starlit skies, beneath the canopy of the forest, over damp earth tracks, we gather to grieve. To hope. To love. To lose and discover ourselves, here, next to each other, over and over again.
Through music, movement and tender storytelling, join 13 young women on a journey of goodness, grief and growing up.
Sennen Uma • Aila Sudbury • Tchii-Anna Hall-Edwards • Alex Court • Millie Clarke • Caitlin Robinson • Abigail Brain • Eve West • Niamh Brealey • Lila Howe • Olivia Perold• Eleanor Barrett
Useful information
- Venue: The Weston Studio
Photos: James E Davies
